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A/B Testing in Terminalfour
A/B Testing is a great way for you to test two variations of your content to judge whether one performs better than another.
Adding a Google Analytics Report to the Dashboard
Adding Google Reports to Terminalfour Dashboards
Alternate Content Layouts From List
Allow users to select variations of how their content can be displayed by selecting from options in a list
Building an Accessible site in Terminalfour
This outlines the steps to take to assist in the creation of an accessible site in Terminalfour.
Cache Busting
Cache busting ensures users receive updated JS/CSS files by appending version identifiers, avoiding your visitor's browser cache serving outdated resources.
Conditional Link Output
Use some Handlebars logic in your layouts to ensure the correct link is output when there's both an internal and external link selected.
Conditional Logic Examples
Your in depth guide to working with conditional logic in Handlebars
Context Aware Layouts
Output content or navigation objects differently depending on how deep within your site structure the page is or which Page layout is in use.
Accessible Images with Media Content Types
Making an accessible media Content Type Layout the default will help your site comply with accessibility guidelines.
Create Friendly URLs
URLs are used by search engines, so it is important that they are human readable and give visitor an indicator of the location of the page.
Creating Canonical URLs with Handlebars
Canonical URLs tell search engines the preferred web page URLs to index, resolving duplicate content issues and improving SEO.
Custom Page Title
Custom page titles improve SEO, attract clicks, convey page content, and enhance user experience in search results.
Deprecation Updates
A list of features and capabilities in Terminalfour that are being removed.
Designing your site in Terminalfour
This article will help you to understand how pages are constructed in Terminalfour so you can code pages that will work neatly once built in
Developing and Testing in TERMINALFOUR
How to develop changes to a live website without affecting the site, but still allowing the ability to test the changes.
Direct Edit Development Tips and Tricks
Learn how you can develop your site to make the most of Direct Edit. Create an editing experience your Content Editors enjoy.
A guide to working with external data
Guidelines on the various ways of including data from other systems on your website.
Create Flexible Page Titles
Title tags are used by search engines and social media as the clickable link, so it is important that it is engaging and accurate.
Formatting Dates and Times
Need more flexibility in how dates or times are output on your site? This guide has you covered.
Getting started with Terminalfour
Now that you have installed Terminalfouryou’ll want to start adding pages, content and publish your site
How to Generate web.config files for IIS (Redirection & Error Page control)
An IIS web.config file is an XML file containing rules for a particular site (or directory) on your web server.
Import Content From CSV
Using the External Content Syncer to sync a CSV file with TERMINALFOUR
Import Content From XML
Using the External Content Syncer to sync an XML file with Terminalfour
Integrating Ellucian Ethos and Terminalfour
This article outlines the steps to integrate Ellucian Ethos with Terminalfour.
List Item As Badges
Take all the selected values from a List element and output them as visually engaging badge elements.
Migrating TinyMCE plugins to version 5
From version 8.3.12, Terminalfour has been upgraded to use v5.8.2 of the TinyMCE editor.
Optimizing Publish Performance
How to investigate a slow publish and improve publish times.
Output Caption If Image Selected
Add some logic to your layouts to ensure that Image Captions only get output if an Image is selected
Product Terms (Glossary)
Get to know the terms used in Terminalfour.
Redesigning an existing website
There are a few different ways to apply a new design to a site that is already in Terminalfour, depending on the changes required.
Release Notes Highlights
In case you missed them here are some highlights from version 8.3.1 on up.
Scheduled Tasks and Daylight Savings Time
Daylight Savings Time (DST) has been, up to now, a challenge for publish and transfer times
Show Fallback Image If No Image Selected
Ensure a pre-selected alternate version of an image is output if a user doesn't explicitly choose an image.
Integration with Silktide
How to configure an integration between a Terminalfour site and the SilkTide API.
Supported Systems
Because Terminalfour is based on open standards, it can run on a wide variety of different operating systems and application servers.
Technical Roadmap
Upcoming and recent changes relating to the Technical Roadmap, Supported Systems etc.
Guide to updating your site's JavaScript and CSS
Some examples of ways to test updates to your global CSS and JavaScript on site that is live in TERMINALFOUR.
Web API Token Authentication
Authentication just got a whole lot more secure with the addition of token authorization in version 8.3.4.
Using Postman to examine the Ethos data model
You can use the Postman API Development Environment app to familiarise yourself with the data model and values.
What's new in 8.2
TERMINALFOUR Version 8.2: Main changes, enhancements and new features
What's new in 8.3
We're excited to announce the release of Version 8.3 of TERMINALFOUR's Digital Marketing and Web Content Management Platform!